{"id":27746,"date":"2025-07-22T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27746\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:10:09","slug":"maga-rising-star-brooke-rollins-posts-snake-photo-shoot-to-take-on-ice-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27746\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Rising Star Brooke Rollins Posts Snake Photo Shoot to Take On ICE Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is giving Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a run for her money when it comes to posting hunting pictures online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The top Trump official took to X on Monday to share a series of pictures of a python hunt in the Florida Everglades on Sunday in a MAGA-styled display of predator versus prey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agriculture secretary donned a camo MAGA hat for her adventure into the wetlands and was photographed grinning as she held the python just below its head, with the rest of its body draped across her shoulders. Another image displayed the massive snake\u2019s fangs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLast night I joined a python hunt in the Florida Everglades!\u201d she wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins participated in a python hunt in the Florida Everglades on July 21, 2025 and shared how the massive snakes are an invasive species and have caused problems for the ecosystem.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/X4N5H6J5EJDHBJPCTW5RNYKMV4.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Pythons are an invasive species in Florida.  https:\/\/x.com\/SecRollins <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGot hands-on with Florida\u2019s invasive species problem,\u201d she continued. \u201cLearned how to wrangle those slithery giants like a pro, joined a heart-pounding hunt under the swamp\u2019s moonlight, &amp; saw up close how these pythons disrupt the Ecosystem. Who\u2019s ready to join the hunt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Her post even started with the line \u201cLOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!\u201d and the snake emoji, an apparent nod to the song from Taylor Swift\u2019s Reputation album, which prominently used snake symbolism. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO! \ud83d\udc0d<br \/>Last night I joined a python hunt in the Florida Everglades!<\/p>\n<p>Got hands-on with Florida\u2019s invasive species problem. Learned how to wrangle those slithery giants like a pro, joined a heart-pounding hunt under the swamp\u2019s moonlight, &amp; saw up close how\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nqokqPXQoL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nqokqPXQoL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecRollins\/status\/1947282734755299567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rollins\u2019 display of her hunting prowess harkened back to similar images her colleague Noem\u2014nickamed \u201cICE Barbie\u201d for her love of dolling up for the cameras on ICE raids and in front of detainees, among other bizarre publicity stunts\u2014has shared, including posing with a dead bear in 2023 and a dead moose in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Noem was governor of South Dakota at the time of her bear hunt and headed up to Saskatchewan, Canada, to go after black bears in a hunt that cost $3,500 a person at the time, according to a local press report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posing with a dead bear from a hunt she participated in back in 2023.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/73KSBEOQMJE65EJKCLN3L2NSSM.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"1000\"\/>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also frequently posts pictures of her hunting escapades.  https:\/\/x.com\/KristiNoem <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last fall, the now-homeland security secretary also headed to Yukon to participate in a moose hunt. In a video documenting the hunt, she excitedly called killing a moose one of her \u201cdreams\u201d while posing with the dead animal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neither species in Noem\u2019s case was considered an invasive species, unlike the python in Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The homeland security secretary, unlike Rollins, also has another animal-killing moment to her name that would have ended many a political career before the Trump era, when she wrote in her 2204 book about killing her 14-month-old dog Cricket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (R) pilots a US Coast Guard Response Boat-Small (RBS) with the Maritime Security Response Team in San Diego, California, on March 16, 2025.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EKDUFMF2MFH7LMZUQ5NHP4LQRI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Noem has earned the nickname &#8220;ICE Barbie&#8221; for dolling up for immigration raids and inviting the press to photograph her in front of detainees, among other bizarre publicity stunts.  Pool\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rollins\u2019 python hunt comes as snakes from around the world have taken up residence in the Everglades over the last decade, according to the National Park Service. The Burmese python is the most problematic of the snakes slithering in and damaging the local ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Python hunting is a year-round activity in the Sunshine State on both private and public lands. There\u2019s even an annual Florida Python Challenge where participants kill as many pythons as possible in an effort to remove the evasive species. 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